Book Club News
So you’re torn between the Rumpus Book Club and the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. You want both, and who could blame you. But it’s just a smidge too pricey for…
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Science Saturday
Two spiral galaxies collided a hundred million years ago. The pictures just got back from the developer. (Is that joke too out of date now? Maybe.) The UN added 21…
Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
My main question about this Wikipedia entry is “who took the time to count all the fucks?” This is the non-porn list, just to be clear. I was a little…
Saturday Morning Links
I have one cat who carries around a catnip-filled mouse in her mouth and quacks. I have another who barks. The other two make regular appearances on my Facebook page.…
James Franco’s Insane Anti-Career
If you’re looking for a long profile of a celebrity to read this weekend (and why wouldn’t you be?) you should choose this one: Sam Anderson’s profile of James Franco…
Empathy Towards Flawed Characters: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
-The big news for Doug Dorst this week was that his new book, The Surf Guru, was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. Writer Robin Romm extols Dorst’s…
Morning Coffee
If you’d been hit by six meteors you would probably think aliens were after you too. Well look at you lottery ticket jeep, aren’t you clever? On the very first…
Prop 8 Reactions
As you may have heard, yesterday Judge Vaughn Walker found California’s Prop 8 to be unconstitutional. Here’s the entire ruling if you’re into those sorts of things. I’m not a…
Celebrate the End of Prop 8 with Jacket Copy’s List of Classic Gay Lit
The dream team line-up of Carolyn Kellogg, Nick Owchar and David L. Ulin present LA Times book blog Jacket Copy’s list of 20 classic gay books in honor of the rejection of…
Morning Coffee
How about a little typography porn to start your Thursday off right? Oh, hello awesome 1960s robot dog. How are you? This is an article about a solar-powered vibrator. Are…
Miranda Rights Under Slow, Steady Attack
From the AP: “You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you’re remaining silent.
Crain on Freud
Caleb Crain has been re-reading and blogging Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: “Two forces meet the reader of the Interpretation: Freud’s authority and his charm. Are they monsters? Seducers? Has-beens? The…